Government Failure: E.G. West on Education, edited by James Tooley and James Stanfield, IEA, December 2003. 

• Reviewed by John B. Egger (Independent Review Winter 2005).

E.G. West vs Mark Blaug (pdf) go head to head on the issue of vouchers

Education and the Industrial Revolution Liberty Fund, 1975

• Book Review by David Friedman, 1993

Education and Competitiveness (pdf) Government and Competitiveness School of Policy Studies, Queens University, 1993

The Education Monopoly Problem (pdf) Centre for Independent Studies Occasional Paper 26, 1989

 Chapters in Books

Parental Choice in Education (pdf)  in Rebirth of Britain, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1964.

The Economics of Compulsion (pdf)  in The Twelve Year Sentence, 1974.

The Public Monopoly and the Seeds of Self Destruction (pdf) in Family Choice in Schooling,  Michael E. Manley-Casimir,  Lexington Books 1982.

The Economics of Higher Education (pdf)  in The Academy In Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education Independent Institute, 1995

Supplying and Financing Education:  Options and Trends under Growing Fiscal Constraints (pdf)  in Merits and Limits of Markets,  Editor Herbert Giersch, Spinger, 1998

Public Education and Imperfect Democracy (pdf) in Education in a Free Society, Edited by Tibor R. Machan, Hoover Institution Press, 2000

Working Papers

Economies of Scale, School Violence, and the Optimal Size of Schools (pdf) - With Stephen Ferris, Dept of Economics, Carleton University, 2002

Education Vouchers, Dropouts and the Peer Group Problem (pdf) With Stephen Ferris, Dept of Economics, Carleton University, 2000

Private Versus Collectivized Charity: Further Exploration of the Crowding Out Debate (pdf) Department of Economics, Carleton University, January 1999

Selective versus universal vouchers: Modeling median voter preferences in education with Zhiqi Chen, Department of Economics, Carleton University, 1998 

Education Vouchers in Principle and Practice: A World Survey World Bank HCO Working Paper February 1996.

Education With and Without the State HCO Working Paper 61, World Bank, September 1995.

Mechanisms for Increasing Consumer Choice in Education (pdf)

The Micro-Economic Reform of Australian Education (pdf) Previously unpublished (1991)

School Autonomy and Parental Choice (pdf) Education Monitor, Winter 1991

Restoring Family Autonomy in Education (pdf) Chronicles - A Magazine of American Culture, October 1990

Schooling and Violence (pdf) Carleton University, Department of Economics, Ottawa, Canada

Tax Credits: Tuition Equity Issues - The Economics of Tuition Tax Credits (pdf) Forum, July 1983

A respected economist examines the issue of tuition tax credits as a means to ensure lower costs and more efficiency in running schools.

The Failure of the District of Columbia Education Tax Credit Initiative (pdf) Carleton University, January 1981.

An Analysis of the District of Columbia Education Tax Credit Initiative Cato Policy Report,  October 27, 1981

Choice or Monopoly in Education? (pdf) Policy Review, Heritage Foundation, Vol 15, Winter 1981

The Case for Abolishing "Free" Education (pdf)

Government Aid to Private Schools: Is it a Trojan Horse? Ed. by Richard Wagner, Centre for Independent Education, 1979